BEST BETS Thursday 11/9

7:15pm

Pop Music

Stone Temple Pilots symbolically climax their journey from the brink of oblivion to apparent prosperity with a headlining spot at the Universal Amphitheatre. The L.A. band, which weathered singer Scott Weiland’s struggle with drugs to make impressive showings at the KROQ Weenie Roast and with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, shares the bill with nu-metal contenders Godsmack and Disturbed.

* Stone Temple Pilots, with Godsmack and Disturbed, Universal Amphitheatre, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, 7:15 p.m. $32.50. (818) 622-4440.

All Day

Theater

Sixty plays and performances, 30 venues: It’s the “Edge of the World Festival 2000,” presented by L.A.-area theater companies such as Actors’ Gang, Actors Co-op, 24th Street Theatre, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Circle X and Fabulous Monsters. The marathon event also includes round-table discussions and “The L.A. History Project.”

* “Edge of the World Festival 2000,” venues, times and ticket prices vary, call or go to https://www.edgeoftheworld.org for details. Today through Nov. 19. (310) 281-7920.

8pm

Theater

Douglas Sills, “Ally McBeal’s” Jane Krakowski and Broadway veteran Donna McKechnie headline in “Mack & Mabel,” Reprise! Broadway’s Best’s semi-staged production of the Michael Stewart-Jerry Herman musical about silent film director Mack Sennett and his love affair with his discovery, Mabel Normand. The premiere of a new book revision by Francine Pascal is directed by Arthur Allen Seidelman.

* “Mack & Mabel,” UCLA, Freud Playhouse, Westwood. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2 p.m. Ends Nov. 19. $50. (310) 825-2101.

8pm

Theater

In Patrick Marber’s dark comedy “Closer,” with Rebecca De Mornay, two men and two women are locked in a lovers’ quadrangle, in which the dynamic constantly shifts as each struggles to attain new levels of intimacy.

* “Closer,” Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles. 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Also Nov. 20, 8 p.m.; Dec. 6, 2:30 p.m. Dark Nov. 23. Dec. 10, 2:30 p.m. only. Ends Dec. 10. $30-$44. (213) 628-2772.

FREEBIE

Architects Danelle Guthrie and Tom Buresh will present a slide-lecture focusing on “interlocking space” in conjunction with “The Un-Private House,” 7 p.m. at the UCLA Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood. (310) 443-7000.